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Familiar
Contestants are meant to model a pet familiar unit - which is a secondary companion - to a hero of their choice among the ones existing in WC3.
Before you ask, here are some considerations regarding the theme:
- One Warcraft III Hero must be necessarily chosen to which the familiar will be assigned conceptually. That means you can choose one Hero out of the following:
- The 12 melee race heroes
- The 8 tavern heroes
- Campaign heroes (Jaina, Sylvanas Windrunner, Admiral Proudmoore, Malfurion, Thrall, Archimonde, Akama, etc)
- Two or more entries may be submitted with the same hero as base.
- The Familiar is an autonomous unit - that means it is completely separate from the Hero's model. (They aren't attachments)
- Familiars may or may not be aggressive. May or may not cast spells. Etc.
- Familiars may or may not be summons. (They may be non-summoned companions)
- A familiar may be of any nature - organic, mechanical, elemental, ethereal, spiritual, and so on.
- No submission may violate any Hive Workshop site rules.
- You must post at least 1 WIP preview before the deadline.
- To qualify for entry, you must post your model, along with any necessary textures to it, in the Resource Section as a bundle and link to it through a post in this thread confirming the submission.
- You may make as many models as you want, however the bundle must contain only 1 version of it until the contest is over.
- The bundle must be submitted before the deadline is reached.
- You will be disqualified in case your submission bundle contents are updated after the deadline is reached and before the contest results are out.
- You must make the model for this competition, which means that you cannot use old works.
- Your model must have these minimum animations:
- Stand
- Walk
- Death
- Birth (Very commonly familiars are summons)
- Attack (Only necessary if the familiar attacks)
- Spell
- The bundle may contain the following additional (and optional) models:
- 1 Portrait Model
- 1 Missile Model
- First Place: 30 reputation points and your entry on an award icon.
- Second Place: 20 reputation points
- Third Place: 10 reputation points
- 80% of the final score shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
- Score shall be taken out of 50 points,
- 10 points for mesh (polygon distribution, anatomy, topology)
- 10 points for animations* (correct motion, physical accuracy, adequacy)
- *Or how well were blizzard animations applied (how adequate is the choice, and how unexpected is it. Is the resemblance to the original too obvious? And are there any glitches?)
- 10 points for skin* (definition, shading & highlights, warcraftishness)
- *Or how well blizzard textures are used (how different textures go well together in color, resolution, and how unexpected is the choice. Does it have too many seams? Is is blurry?)
- 5 points for mechanics (how well does this model work ingame)
- 5 points for effects (appropriate use of particles, ribbons, events. their quality and measure.)
- When the judge concludes effects aren't totally applicable to a specific entry (in case the entry lacks effects, but doesn't need them), the criterion's weight may be reduced until 0 by him. In this case, the maximum score is reduced to until 45 to that entry. (Being 45/45 the same as 50/50)
- 10 points for creativity (how adequate to the theme it is, how coherent/consistent is the idea, how creatively thought it is)
- Score shall be taken out of 50 points,
- 20% of the final score shall be determined by the percentage of votes on a quick public poll (1-week-long only).
- Such poll should permit users to vote in at most X entries, where X is:
- One third of the number of total entries, rounded to the closest number.
- No more than 3.
- Users are able to see the poll votes before voting, in case they prefer.
- Such poll should permit users to vote in at most X entries, where X is:
The contest shall begin on Wednesday, February 15th and conclude on Sunday, March 19th, 11:59 PM, 2017 GMT.
- The only extension possible is under the following conditions:
- In case there are less than 3 entries when the deadline is reached, the deadline is suspended. When a third entry is uploaded, the deadline is set to 24 hours after its submission moment.
- If there are less than 3 entries 2 weeks after original deadline was reached, the contest is closed and only the 20 reputation point award is given, to all valid participants.
Tell us if you want to judge!
Participants and their respective entries should be listed here as they enter.
| Contestant | Entry | Base Hero | WIP's |
| Direfury | Geist | Death Knight | WIP 1 - WIP 2 |
| Stefan.K | Salamander | Beastmaster | WIP |
| PROXY | Nightprowler | Demon Hunter | WIP 1 - WIP 2 - WIP 3 |
| HappyCockroach | Mescalito | Shadow Hunter | Concept 1 - Concept 2 - WIP 1 |
| The_Silent | Concept 1 | ||
| Hayate | Snow Mountrilla | Mountain King | WIP 1 - WIP 2 |
| Freddyk | Goblin Bookworm | Gul'dan | WIP 1 |
| Traggey | Baby Gryphon Courier | Mountain King | WIP 1 - WIP 2 - WIP 3 |
| Kyrbi0 | Mojo Mask | Shadow Hunter | WIP 1 |
| Mike | Batty | Tichondrius | WIP 1 |
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